{"id":14929,"date":"2017-02-16T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2017-02-16T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T17:41:00","slug":"big-news-cole-and-bishop-introduce-the-fda-deeming-authority-clarification-act-of-2017-the-vta-explains-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/14929","title":{"rendered":"BIG NEWS: Cole and Bishop Introduce The FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2017 &#038; The VTA Explains it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cole and Bishop Introduce The FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2017:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhile there is disagreement about whether certain tobacco products should be regulated or not, there should be agreement that new regulations should apply to products moving forward, and not retroactively,\u201d said Cole. \u201cInconsistent authority like this will be detrimental and unfair to many manufacturers and businesses. This legislation preserves the FDA\u2019s ability to regulate these products on part with cigarettes, grandfathers currently available products and then requires the FDA\u2019s approval before any new product is introduced.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the entire press release <a href=\"https:\/\/cole.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/cole-and-bishop-introduce-fda-deeming-authority-clarification-act-2017\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/vaportechnology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VTA<\/a> goes on to further explain what this means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, the Vapor Technology Association (VTA) issued the following<br \/>\nstatement in support of bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Tom Cole (ROK)<br \/>\nand Sanford Bishop (D-GA) that would modify the predicate date for e-cigarettes and<br \/>\nprovide much needed regulation of vapor products as the technology that they are rather<br \/>\nthan the tobacco products that they are not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/vaportechnology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FINAL-VTA-Release_Cole-Bishop-intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"BIG%20NEWS%3A%20Cole%20and%20Bishop%20Introduce%20The%20FDA%20Deeming%20Authority%20Clarification%20Act%20of%202017%20%26%20The%20VTA%20Explains%20it\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole and Bishop Introduce The FDA Deeming Authority Clarification Act of 2017: \u201cWhile there is disagreement about whether certain tobacco products should be regulated or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}